If any of you are Ursula Le Guin fans, her new one out "Gifts" is a good book for any kids you want to give a present to (after having read it yourself, of course).

But in the same vein and quite excellent, are the SF books written by Doris Lessing. The Shikasta Series. They are just as good, in my mind, as Le Guin's.

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